Friendship教案

to improve students’ ability to help others solve problems.

2. teaching procedure

(analysis: listening and writing are expansion of the topic of the text. listening is about lisa’s problem of making a friend with a boy. she asks miss wang for advice. through listening and exercise, students learn how to give advice and the skill of giving advice. and also let them think about the problem of boy’s making friends with girls and girls with boys. and then design a task to ask students to give advice according to the different problems to practise their ability to solve the problems. all of these lay the foundation for the next task writing. in this way, students feel that they have information to put out. and writing makes for the improvement of students’ writing ability, strengthening their comprehension of friendship.)

step 1. revision

ss work in groups of four. design a questionnaire to find out what kind of friends your classmates are. they can use the quiz in the warming up to help them. some tips are as follows:

step 1): in your group, think of four situations among friends. design four questions accordingly with three possible answers.

step 2): put the four questions together and make a questionnaire.

step 3): check your questionnaire through and try it out on your own group.

step 4): share your questionnaires with one or two other groups and try each other’s questionnaires.

 sample questionnaire:

this questionnaire has four questions, and each question is followed by a set of possible answers. please read the questions, and then consider which response fits you best.

1.why am i close friends with this person now?

a. because being friends with him/her helps me feel important.

b. because my friend would be upset if i ended the relationship.

c. because he/she is someone i really enjoy sharing emotions and special events with.

2. why do i spend time with my friend?

a. because my friend would get mad at me if i didn’t.

b. because it is fun spending time with him/her.

c. because i think it is what friends are supposed to do.

3.why do i listen to my friend’s problems, or to what my friend has to say?

a. because my friend praises me and makes me feel good when i do.

b. because it’s interesting and satisfying to be able to share like that.

c. because i really value getting to know my friend better.

4.why do i keep promises to my friend?

a. because i believe it is an important personal quality to live up to my promises to a friend.

b. because it would threaten our friendship if i were not trustworthy.